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to beat someone in a race, competition, etc.
beatUnited beat City 3 - 2.
defeatCan Ireland defeat New Zealand in this high-stakes match?
conquerThe Greeks had fought and conquered the army of Mardonius.
vanquishThe superhero always vanquishes his foes and saves the world.
annihilateModern superpowers succeed not by annihilating their enemies but by buying them off.
hammerThe Colts got hammered by the Patriots.
to deal with or successfully fight against a problem or an unreasonable fear: 解决（问题）;战胜，克服（恐惧）
conquer your fearHe has finally conquered his fear of spiders.他终于战胜了对蜘蛛的恐惧。
It may be many years before this dreadful disease is conquered.要战胜这种可怕的疾病可能需要许多年。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Attacking & invading
advance guard
aggressor
ambush
beleaguer
beleaguered
besiege
blitz
cyberwarfare
declare war on someone/something
false flag
foray
full-frontal assault
going-over
hit and run
post-attack
post-conquest
pre-emption
privateer
raid
swoop

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Winning and defeating
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conquer | American Dictionary

conquer
verb[ T ]
us/ˈkɑŋ·kər/
to defeat an enemy, or to take control or possession of a foreign land:
I felt like I had conquered the world.
If you conquer a disease or condition, you succeed in dealing with or fighting against it:
Students have to conquer their initial shyness.

conqueror

noun[ C ]us/ˈkɑŋ·kər·ər/
the conqueror Genghis Khan

conquest

noun[ C/U ]us/ˈkɑn·kwest, ˈkɑŋ-/
[ C ]Several generations turned their attention towards the conquest of the Mediterranean region.

Examples of conquer

conquer
Inflation had been conquered, high employment was once more the norm, and productivity growth hit levels not seen since the 1960s.
Legal opinion offered ample support to the argument for extending the benefits of a conquest to the conquered.
The project of conquering space inherently and inevitably entails the devaluation of place.
On the other hand, as henchmen of a conquering power, they also demanded fearful respect.
As researchers, parents, or casual observers we are often amazed by their innovative approach to conquering new territories of speech.
Political obstacles existed not just in newly conquered lands but also in well-assimilated regions.
Each sees the campus itself as a social space to be conquered and brought under its spiritual superintendence.
One interviewee strongly believed in 'working with nature instead of conquering her'.
The birth of digital publication involves three motors: utopia, the norm, and conquering thought.
Would the mid-nineteenth century reformer/survivor perceive himself to have ultimately conquered death and waste?
They were to respect each other's dominion over the lands they conquered as well as navigation rights in their respective territorial waters.
Advances in conquering a disease usually require the discovery of a "preparation" - a model biological system in which the disease can be studied.
According to the enlightenment ideology, nature is a hostile force to be conquered, and tradition a relic to be discarded.
The family of our ethos, of our professional identity, has to be conquered through successive discoveries, attentive understanding, and sudden flashes of awareness.
Thus is cancer declared the enemy, which must be conquered.
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